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"Edit: Another common thing about these discussions is otherwise intelligent people ignoring the fact that it is possible for a program written in one language to call a library written in another."

And this is a huge differentiator among languages.

Scala and Clojure have immediate access to the vast expanse of Java libraries. Python has a very good mechanism for wrapping and calling C/C++ libraries.

As far as I know, Arc does not yet particularly shine in this area, although I believe some arc hackers are working on it.



Glue! As perl was, so ruby is becoming (a nice glue.)

I like JRuby, cause it lets me use the gynormous amount of java libs in terse, "powerful", ruby without jumping through hoops.

Why are so many people afraid/resistant to this paradigm?


Speaking of, anybody has any practical experience with ABCL (Armed Bear Common Lisp)?




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